Nine Women Accuse Israel Horovitz, Playwright and Mentor, of Sexual Misconduct

NYT ^ | 11/30/2017 | Jessica Bennett

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Inspired by the revelations about Harvey Weinstein, Louis C.K. and others, a total of nine women have come forward publicly for the first time to describe a pattern of sexual abuse and violations of trust by a man they considered a mentor and friend. Mr. Horovitz is an award-winning author of more than 70 plays, including “The Indian Wants the Bronx” (starring Al Pacino in 1968); “Park Your Car in Harvard Yard” (on Broadway in 1991); and “Out of the Mouths of Babes,” which ran Off Broadway last year.

Over his five-decade career, Mr. Horovitz has been an influential player in the theater world. As the founding artistic director of Gloucester Stage, a respected regional theater that called itself a “safe harbor for playwrights,” and as an Obie-winning writer whose work was produced frequently in New York and Paris, he has had the power to offer roles, jobs or a helping hand to generations of actors.

In response to questions this week, Mr. Horovitz, 78, told The New York Times that while he has “a different memory of some of these events, I apologize with all my heart to any woman who has ever felt compromised by my actions, and to my family and friends who have put their trust in me. To hear that I have caused pain is profoundly upsetting, as is the idea that I might have crossed a line with anyone who considered me a mentor.”

[NEMDF]

I have never heard of him. I guess I just am not into the NYC glitz and culture scene....

[Liz]

Predator Horovitz's comments to his victims resonate:

<><>he told one victim "you wont get anywhere with those twisted southern values"...meaning conservative values;

<><>he told another victim "no great woman became great by being a good girl."

The weinstein sickness in a nutshell.

These people are satanic.

[x]

His kid was a Beastie Boy.

I guess beastieness runs in the family.

[hal ogen]

Yet another LIB pervert abusing women. I bet he supports “women’s rights”. What a piece of work.

[smalltownslick]

No, he has nothing to do with NYC glitz and culture.

His affiliation is with the Gloucester Stage, in Gloucester, MA. I don’t know anything about him, but he was very well known in that situation, so anything’s possible. I went to two plays there - one, North Shore Fish, I believer was written and created by him. It was hilarious. The other was a production of Streetcar Named Desire, which starred the guy who played Shorty the cook on Frank’s Place. Just saying I enjoyed what they created, but have no idea of behind the scenes. Isn’t that the way it always is?

[Jolla]

Can’t wait for Mick Jaggers girls to come out of the woodwork -

[dayglored]

> Can’t wait for Mick Jaggers girls to come out of the woodwork

I doubt Jagger ever had to coerce any of his playmates. Back in the day, they were standing in line around the block just to get a look at him, much less sleep with him.

For all I know, they still are.

[vetvetdoug]

Jagger screwed everyone near him, including Geraldo and Princess Margaret. His escapades were not kept secret and he didn't have to rape any of them. They don't call him Mick The Dick for nothing.

[Albion Wilde]

Ping.

[SaraJohnson]

Unless there is force involved, these tell-all-after-the-fact and-fail-to-report-sexual-harassment “victims” should be ignored.

I have dealt with men who have come on to me via work interactions and they don’t get anywhere because I give them the look of death and tell the to f off. A man tried to rape me once and I smashed him down.

I really don’t get the fragile and cooperating victim of sexual harassment short of death threats in this day and age. If you cooperate for a job, you are no more than a slut. Women are not children.